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		<title>Stony Gut, Coral Gardens, Tivoli &#8211; Repression of the Counter Culture</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2012/01/23/stony-gut-coral-gardens-tivoli-repression-of-the-counter-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European launch of a documentary on the 1963 government attack on Rastafari in Jamaica, and a Canadian report that murders in Toronto have fallen 25 per cent since the arrest of Jamaican community don, Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, serve to highlight that the island's power structure and culture remain at odds, 50 years after independence from Britain.]]></description>
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		<title>Feet to the Fire &#8211; Reflection on an Election</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2011/12/30/reflection-on-an-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor Dawes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The opposition People's National party was returned to power taking 41 of 63 seats in the House of representatives in Jamaica's general election Thursday, called by Andrew Holness after just over a month in office to secure his own mandate on inheriting a moribund economy from Bruce Golding. It was a massive defeat after an almost evenly split vote in 2007.]]></description>
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		<title>Culture Clash Visible as Canada Bans Veils at Citizenship Swearing</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2011/12/12/culture-clash-visible-as-canada-bars-veils-at-citizenship-swearing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Canadian Government has decided that people taking the citizenship oath must not have their face covered. The decision is aimed at Muslim women who wear a niqab or a burqa to the ceremony. The announcement Monday by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, at a news conference in Montreal, comes at a time when the culture clash [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ding Dong, Ding Dong, Cuckoo Bells Are Ringing</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2011/12/07/ding-dong-ding-dong-cuckoo-bells-are-ringing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must be crazy. Like the gods drinking Coca Cola and dropping the bottle in the Kalahari Desert on Bushmen. Read this and tell me what you think (I&#8217;m going to tell you what I think, right after the commercial break): (Jamaica&#8221;s) Tourism Minister, the Hon. Edmund Bartlett is expressing shock and disappointment at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debt Before Dishonour &#8211; St Kitts Defaults as it Restructures</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2011/12/04/debt-before-dishonour-st-kitts-defaults-as-it-restructures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 05:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The credit rating of St Kitts and Nevis, the smallest independent state in the hemisphere, took a hit when it defaulted on a bond payment the end of November. The administration of Prime Minister Denzil Douglas, in the midst of developing a debt rescheduling package with the help of London-based consultants, White Oak Advisory, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Race-Based Violence Against Women Missing Agenda Item</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2011/11/25/race-based-violence-against-women-missing-agenda-item/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Mirabal sisters – Minerva, Patricia and Maria Teresa- took up the cause of justice in the 1950s in their native Dominican Republic, they had no idea that they would be the catalyst for a wider international movement for social justice. Their activism against the corrupt and unjust regime of Dictator Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama and Adversity</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2011/08/09/obama-and-adversity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor Dawes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is nothing like adversity to not only test one&#8217;s mettle but demands one to take stock of his/her life and the choices made and to see if/where one can do better. As a leader, adversity will either further burnish your leadership qualities or exposes you in ways that are most unflattering. Recently, Standard &#38; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Siemens Makes US$38-million Software Grant to Jamaican University</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2011/06/22/siemens-makes-us38-million-software-grant-to-jamaican-university/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abeng News</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Faculty of Engineering and Computing, University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech), has received a software grant with a commercial value of US$38.85M (JA$3.4B) from Siemens PLM software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services. The presentation by Leecorp Ltd, the local representative, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Suspends Market Vendor and Philanthropist Tilly Johnson</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2011/05/28/city-suspends-market-vendor-and-philanthropist-tilly-johnson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 13:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Hompoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Tilly Johnson, 82, one of Hamilton Farmers&#8217; Market&#8217;s longest-serving vendors, has been slapped with a 30 day suspension under the Hamilton Farmers&#8217; Markets&#8217; Zero-Tolerance policy. The staff acted on a customer’s allegation that she was harassed by Johnson; the incident occurred Saturday, May 21st. Johnson was given notice at 3 pm Friday. Despite Ms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Dread: KC, the Wailers and Me</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2011/05/11/growing-dread-kc-the-wailers-and-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.abengnews.com/2011/05/11/growing-dread-kc-the-wailers-and-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 23:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Lopez is on my Toronto TV as I write, singing I’m Into You, accompanied by the rapper Lil Wayne. It’s a traditional reggae bass line with a little bit of the more recent dancehall rhythm on top – a sound some of us in my youthful days called flyers rockers, associated with the likes [...]]]></description>
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